''Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out'' is a 1967 album credited to
Timothy Leary, created to accompany the documentary film of the same name.
It contains narrated meditation mixed with freeform
psychedelic rock
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music.
Track listing
Side A
#"The Turn On" - 2:23
#"The Tune In" - 3:34
#"The Beginning of the Voyage (Heart Chakra)" - 4:01
#"Root Chakra" - 2:05
#"All Girls Are Yours" - 4:37
#"Freak-Out" - 0:29
Side B
#"Freak-Out (Continued)" - 3:53
#"Genetic Memory" - 6:43
#"Re-Entry (Nirvana)" - 3:10
#"Epilogue (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)" - 2:52
Liner notes
All selections written by Maryvonne Giercarz/Lars Eric/Richard Bond
Guide: Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
Voyager:
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.
Divine Connection: Rosemary Woodruff
Veena: Maryvonne Giercarz
Guitar: Lars Eric
Tabla: Richard Bond
Executive Producer:
Henry G. Saperstein
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Biography
The son of Aaron Saperstein and Beatrice Pearl Saperstein, Henry's father owned five independent cinemas in Chicago. Henry was ed ...
Associate Producer: S. Richard Krown
Special Effects Conception: UPA Pictures, Inc.
Produced by Al Ham
Tape Editor: Dale McKechnie
Notes
Sample from this album were used on the
Skinny Puppy
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song "
Left Hand Shake" from their album ''
Last Rights''. Leary agreed for the sample to be used but the copyright holder did not and the song was pulled from the album. Samples were also used on the
Nine Inch Nails
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remix album ''
Fixed
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''.
There were two albums with this name: the 1967 'Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' -
Mercury Records
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21131 (mono)/61131 (stereo)
- and a prior, 1966 version without music and a different narrative by Leary, possibly recorded at the Millbrook mansion - (
ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
History
Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity''), ESP b ...
1027).
On it Leary describes the recording location of his narrative as 'On the third floor of the Castilla Foundation' in New York, a countryside house used as a sanctuary for psychedelic experiences.
References
External links
*
Full audio at
Internet Archive
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* (associated documentary film)
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1967 albums
Timothy Leary albums
ESP-Disk albums
Mercury Records albums